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Posted: Today at 10:25 a.m.
Updated: 8 minutes ago
Raleigh, N.C. Jesse Helms, the firebrand U.S. senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died at 1:15 a.m. Friday in Raleigh, according to John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center.
He joins the second and third presidents of the United States Thomas Jefferson and John Adams Jr. who both also died on Independence Day.
Posted: Today at 10:25 a.m.
Updated: 8 minutes ago
Raleigh, N.C. Jesse Helms, the firebrand U.S. senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died at 1:15 a.m. Friday in Raleigh, according to John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center.
He joins the second and third presidents of the United States Thomas Jefferson and John Adams Jr. who both also died on Independence Day.